webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 07/24/2012 10:02 AM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
That underwater cable network is used for both phone and Internet
communication, since phone systems not seem to be converted to
digital to go through the cables to give more "lines" of
communication between countries
????
Are analog trunks still in use anywhere? The phone system has been
digital for many years, long before there was an Internet. It'd have
to be an extremely old cable to require analog trunks. Anything
running over fibre would most certainly be digital.
They still have the cables and they are used. Mostly they are used as
digital trunk lines, but not every one has been converted do to their
age. The expense of laying a new fiber cable across a large body of
ocean/sea is something that slows up the process of many parts of the
world getting the better/faster connections. The poorer the country,
or the less number of potential users of the service, the longer it
will take for the giant communication companies to spend the type of
money needed to give these users the type of service many of us
enjoy. Europe has a better broadband system than most of the USA
does. I saw a program for places like the Netherlands and other
European countries where they have a very large section of their
country with fiber to the home and they have many different companies
to choose from for broadband. With that large competition for the
broadband market, their Internet prices for 50 MB/s bandwidth is lower
than my area of the USA for a 5 to 10 MB/s access. We have just two
options. Cable modem service or a DSL service. We pay $50+ a month
for either. On some science TV programming, they showed services for
as little as $15 a month for the same services. It all comes down to
how good is their trunk system and how the marketing controls over
those trunk lines are regulated. For countries like New Zealand,
they have to rely on a limited trunk cable on the ocean floor. I
would wonder if it was possible to run a trunk line from their nation
to Australia. Would it give them more access, or is Australia using
the same trunk cable system as well.
This list
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_submarine_communications_cables>
shows many cables going to New Zealand, though some have now been
decommissioned. I see links to Canada, U.S., Australia, Fiji and other
islands. As for local access, you might be interested in this article:
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8073>
These days, low bandwidth tends to be more of a political vs economic or
technical issue. For example, in the U.S., someone else mentioned low
bandwidth in some areas. Yet, in some states, the incumbent carriers
have pushed for state laws that prohibit municipalities from providing
Internet service in areas that the carriers refuse to. This leaves the
residents with no access to high speed internet.
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